Because he doesn’t want to look like a girl. There’s really no good reason to shave your legs. Save the more aerodynamic, hydrodynamic, heals better if you crash, blah, blah, blah, mumbo jumbo.
Slide across the pavement at 30 mph with hairy legs and you’ll shave for the rest of your life.
I shave so everyone can see my massive quads from biking and huge calves from running in my NB minimus’s !
x2 I like to show off these pistons that you mere mortals call legs
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Because he doesn’t want to look like a girl. There’s really no good reason to shave your legs. Save the more aerodynamic, hydrodynamic, heals better if you crash, blah, blah, blah, mumbo jumbo.
Leg shaving is pure vanity and feeling a need to fit in. All 3 of my crit crashes were in the same race in consecutive years…90-91-92. Shaved for first one, not the 2nd or 3rd. All sucked, all hurt like hell getting cleaned out at the hospital and all healed in the same time frame.
Not a thing wrong with shaving them…do whatever floats the boat. I just laugh at all the justifications for ‘needing’ to do so.
Leg shaving is pure vanity
That is all the reason I need 
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Slide across the pavement at 30 mph with hairy legs and you’ll shave for the rest of your life.
It doesn’t make a damn bit of difference.
Slide across the pavement at 30 mph with hairy legs and you’ll shave for the rest of your life.
When I slid across the pavement at 30mph it removed all of the hair for me. I didn’t have to shave beforehand.
Its not vanity. Its cultural.
People who don’t shave either haven’t spent enough time in the culture or just plain don’t conform. Theres nothing wrong with that.
Myself, I conform and don’t have a problem with that either.
My dad freaked when I was 13 and started shaving.
Its not vanity. Its cultural.
My dad freaked when I was 13 and started shaving.
Ya, but I’m sure that was cause you were full body shaving </pink off>.
How much time would you save on a ironman bike with clean legs and arms?
.3 seconds per 40K… I have no idea. No one knows because it’s so minute that it wouldn’t show up on tests.
You know what would show up on tests; the guy complaining about an ingrown hair that kept him from pedaling correctly for 112 miles.
I’m a swimmer and I don’t shave.
I shave so I can sit with the roadies and make fun of the plebeian triathletes. No, wait… I shave so I can infiltrate the ranks of the roadies without being discovered as a triathlete… wait, THAT won’t work once they see my bike handling skills… A screw it… I’m a conformist.
Its not vanity. Its cultural.
Ding ding ding.
To quote my thoughts on this from a different thread on whether I shave:
I don’t… at least not yet. Give me one good reason and I willl.
Cyclists attitude toward leg shaving (you must do it to be part of the group, even though it’s pointless and makes no sense) is what I like and respect least about amateur bike racing. It’s like a mindless gang ritual.
And I shaved my whole body countless times for swimming, so I don’t have any hangup about the actually act itself.
Slide across the pavement at 30 mph with hairy legs and you’ll shave for the rest of your life.
It doesn’t make a damn bit of difference.
I think it does; having crashed at high speed with and without hair I think the time while shaved was considerably easier to clean and manage.
sliding across pavement at 30mph; means I did just shave!
I’m in my 60s and don’t have time to shave. Spend too much time getting rid of ear and nose hair - wait, does that count as shaving? Plus occasional manscaping to control other areas.
I’d love one of those machines that you see in some shows where they do decontaminations by blasting you with some kind of UV light which depiliates your entire body. Heck, the only thing I’d miss is my beard, not that much up top anyway.
I’m in my 60s and don’t have time to shave. Spend too much time getting rid of ear and nose hair - wait, does that count as shaving? Plus occasional manscaping to control other areas.
I’d love one of those machines that you see in some shows where they do decontaminations by blasting you with some kind of UV light which depiliates your entire body. Heck, the only thing I’d miss is my beard, not that much up top anyway.
Chemo?
Its not vanity. Its cultural.
Ding ding ding.
To quote my thoughts on this from a different thread on whether I shave:
I don’t… at least not yet. Give me one good reason and I willl.
Cyclists attitude toward leg shaving (you must do it to be part of the group, even though it’s pointless and makes no sense) is what I like and respect least about amateur bike racing. It’s like a mindless gang ritual.
And I shaved my whole body countless times for swimming, so I don’t have any hangup about the actually act itself.
for the massage. getting a leg massage with a lot of hair sucks, getting one with shaved legs is amazing.
I’m in my 60s and don’t have time to shave. Spend too much time getting rid of ear and nose hair - wait, does that count as shaving? Plus occasional manscaping to control other areas.
I’d love one of those machines that you see in some shows where they do decontaminations by blasting you with some kind of UV light which depiliates your entire body. Heck, the only thing I’d miss is my beard, not that much up top anyway.
Chemo?
My wife is an Oncology nurse. There is no way I’m going through the pain and agony of Chemo unless I have to. But I thank you for your helpful suggestion. It would be less painful to do a Brazilian wax - do they do your taint as well?. Maybe that’d be a better option.